Weather-strip



(N0 Modell) G. SAVILLE.

' WEATHER STRIP. No. 565,038. Patented Aug. 4, 1896 Wi'tnasaes UNITEDSTATES PATENT Orricn.

CLIFFORD SAVILLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO VILLIAM RIGHT, OFHACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY.

7' WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,038, dated August4, 1896.

Application filed. May 4, 1894:, Serial No 510,104. (No modeLl T 0 allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLIFFORD SAVILLE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to weatherstrips, and the object of mypresent improvement is to devise a weather-strip made wholly ofvulcanized rubber and having certain characteristics which render itspecially effective for the uses intended, and which shall possess allthe advantages of the metallic weatherstrip, so called, (which comprisesa flexible strip or cushion of rubber provided with a backing of metalthrough which the nails are driven to secure the weather-strip in placearound the window or door, the said metallic backing firmly holding therubber strip or cushion in proper relation to the window or door frame,and the edge of the rubber cushion or strip embraced by the metal beinggenerally provided with a reinforcing means adapted to prevent theseparation of the metal and rubber,) without the disadvantages due toits rigid condition and liability of its becoming unfit for use by theseparation of the rubber from the metal in shipping and handling thesame.

My improved weather-strip is shown in the accompanying drawings, whereinlike parts are designated in the several views by like numerals ofreference, the said drawings forming a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a'sheet comprising a numberof lengths of weather-strip made according to my inventi on, theweather-strip being produced in this form to economize its manufacture.Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is anend elevation of a strip embodying my invention.

Referring to the drawings, at indicates that part of the weather-stripadapted to cover or bear against the opening or joint to be protected,and which corresponds to the flexible rubber element of the metallicweather-strip referred to, and 5 indicates the attaching portion throughwhich the nails are driven and which corresponds to the metal backing ofthe old type of weather-strip. The parts 4: and 5 will be made of anydesirable dimensions.

The part i of the strip which is to protect the joint or opening will beformed only of such thickness as is necessary to insure its performingthe function intended, and the thickness may vary according to thevariations in the widths of said protecting parts. The supporting part 5of the strip is made rounding or convex, as shown, whereby the requisitebody is secured without undue width. This shape of the supporting part 5provides the necessary purchase for the attaching-nails and besidesrenders the structure attractive when in place. On the top of thesupporting part 5 it is provided centrally with a slight longitudinalindentation 6,which serves as a guide for the insertion of the nails.

The bearing edge 7 of the protecting portion a of the strip is beveledinwardly in order that when the weatherstrip is nailed in place the saidedge may cushion more snugly against the window or door than it would ifmade square.

For economy of manufacture my improved weather-strip will be made insheets of such widths and lengths as may be convenient, one of suchsheets being shown in Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings. The process ofmanufacturing articles of rubber of this nature is so well understoodthat no description is here given of the same. hen made in sheets, theseveral weather-strips will be severed from one another on the dottedlines indicated at 7' in the cross-section, Fig. 2, thus leaving theedges of the protecting portion a beveled inwardly and the edges of theconvex supporting portions 5 conforming to the slope of that side of thesame.

I am aware of the patent of TV. Miller, No. 99,932, dated February 15,1870, and do not claim anything therein shown and described. Myinvention differs from that of Miller in that the flat protectingportion of the strip is formed with a beveled cushioning edge, and theconvex portion is provided in the process of manufacture with alongitudinal indentation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters tegral structure of rubber, substantially as Patent,i-s, set forth.

As a new article of manufacture, a Weather- Signed at New York, in thecounty of New strip consisting wholly of flexible vulcanized York andState of New York, this 1st day of 5 rubber and comprising a fiatportion 4 hav- May, A. D. 1894.

in an inwardly-beveled cushionim ed e as 1 7, and a supporting portion 5whieh is r und- CLIFFORD I ing or convex and is provided in its topsur-. Witnesses face with a central longitudinal indentation. WILLIAMRIGBY,

10 or nail-guide, as 6, the whole forming an in- J. M. BOWEN.

